Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

“Like Jefferson, Brandeis believed that the greatest threat to our constitutional liberties was an uneducated citizenry, and that democracy could not survive both ignorant and free. And”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet

“could become occasionally tyrannical, and that democratic liberty would falter if citizens ceased to be engaged. But he also had faith that a virtuous and engaged citizenry—grounded in small communities—could, through deliberation, achieve a good in common that they could not know alone.”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet

“Zimmern’s definition of the Greek conception of leisure: namely, the time away from business when the citizens could develop their faculties through the art and contemplation that were indispensable for full participation in public affairs. “The Greek word for unemployment is ‘scholê,’ which means ‘leisure’: while for business he has no better word than the negative ‘ascholia,’ which means ‘absence of leisure.’ The hours and weeks of unemployment he regards as the best and most natural part of his life,” Zimmern wrote. “Leisure is the mother of art and contemplation, as necessity is the mother of the technical devices we call ‘inventions.’”71”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet